Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02737; Mon, 18 Dec 95 21:57:34 EST Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23058; Mon, 18 Dec 95 21:56:04 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA31425; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 21:54:40 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA02151 Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:45:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA02053 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:44:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA02048 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:44:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA13141; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:38:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512190038.RAA13141@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2 (or more) LAN interface on SAME subnet ? To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:38:36 -0700 (MST) Cc: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9512182157.AA08392@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Dec 18, 95 04:57:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > < said: > > work, at least in theory. From memory there is no restriction on > > physical interface and logical subnet. Please correct me if this is > > not true. > > This is not true. The Internet Architecture requires that logical > subnets be fully-connected. The BSD Architecture requires that every > network interface be connected to a unique subnet. You mean "logical network interface", right? Otherwise you're saying you can't use bridges on subnets... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.